Glorious Revolution

Examples of Glorious Revolution in the following topics:

• The Glorious Revolution

  • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
  • The Revolution permanently ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England.
  • The expression "Glorious Revolution" was first used by John Hampden in late 1689, and is an expression that is still used by the British Parliament.
  • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
  • William of Orange successfully invaded England with a Dutch fleet in the Glorious Revolution of 1688

• The Glorious Revolution in America

  • The Glorious Revolution led to the dissolution of the Dominion of New England and the establishment of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • The Dutch prince, who had tried to get James to reconsider his policies, agreed to an invasion, and the nearly bloodless "Glorious Revolution" that followed in November and December 1688 established William and his wife Mary as co-rulers.
  • Furthermore, Mather convinced the Lords of Trade to delay notifying Andros of the revolution.
  • In the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, Massachusetts Puritans arrested Andros.
  • Nicholson was deposed as lieutenant governor of the Dominion of New England when news of the Glorious Revolution reached North America.

• The Concept of Civic Duty

  • After the Glorious Revolution, British and Anglo-American intellectuals contended that (white) men had inalienable rights to liberty and property.
  • In the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, many British intellectuals reevaluated the identity of Britain as a nation and empire.
  • For many British subjects, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution ushered in a period of pride and reevaluation of national identity.
  • The events of the Glorious Revolution reaffirmed that Parliament was the highest authority in the nation, and more significantly, that the monarch could not rule without parliamentary consent and approval.
  • With the building conflict with Britain in the 1760s and 1770s, these principles (particularly that the government is answerable to citizens and political representation is a requisite for implementing new taxes) were often invoked by colonists as justification for boycotting British goods and other forms of resistance that led to the American Revolution.

• Colonies in Crisis

  • The events of the Glorious Revolution in England had tumultuous repercussions for British colonies in America.
  • Maryland saw Coode's rebellion, or the Protestant Revolution of 1689.

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • Furthermore, the Glorious Revolution reinforced the meaning of Magna Carta with the Lockean notion that this charter was an early form of a social contract between a king and his people.
  • After the Glorious Revolution, monarchical absolutism was replaced by parliamentary sovereignty in this social contract, with the purpose of safeguarding the "rights of Englishmen. "

• The Dominion of New England

  • The nearly bloodless "Glorious Revolution" followed in November and December of 1688 and established William and his wife Mary as co-rulers of England.
  • After the Glorious Revolution and the ascent of William and Mary, the Massachusetts agents then petitioned the new monarchs and the Lords of Trade (who oversaw colonial affairs) for restoration of the Massachusetts charter.
  • Furthermore, Mather convinced the Lords of Trade to delay notifying Andros of the revolution.
  • He had already dispatched to previous colonial governor Simon Bradstreet, a letter containing news of a report (prepared before the revolution), that the annulment of the Massachusetts charter had been illegal, and that the magistrates should "prepare the minds of the people for a change."
  • Rumors of the revolution apparently reached some individuals in Boston before official news arrived.

• The Habit of Self-Government

  • The idea of self-government was encouraged by the Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Bill of Rights which established that the British Parliament—and not the king—had the ultimate authority in government.

• Land and Liberty

  • Because of the ideas encouraged by the Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Bill of Rights, which established that Parliament and not the King had the ultimate authority in government, the colonists sincerely believed that they had the right to govern themselves, being separated from Britain by an ocean and having founded an entirely new society.
  • Republicanism provided the framework for colonial resistance to British taxation after 1763, which escalated into the Revolution.
  • The ideological movement known as the American Enlightenment was a critical precursor to the American Revolution.
  • Discuss the burgeoning legal characteristics of the British Colonies that eventually gave rise to Republicanism, the American Enlightenment, and, eventually, the American Revolution.

• An Emerging Colonial System

  • They revolted in the American Revolution, starting in 1775, and in 1776 declared their independence from the British Empire and formed a new nation, the United States of America.
  • Those in the British West Indies, Newfoundland, the Province of Quebec, and East Florida remained loyal to the crown throughout the American Revolution, although there was a degree of sympathy with the Patriot cause in several of them .
  • The experiment was discontinued with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, and the nine former colonies re-established their separate identities in 1689.

• The Revolution and Churches

  • Nonetheless, the Revolution split some denominations.
  • Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British—an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.
  • The Revolution strengthened millennialist strains in American theology.
  • At the beginning of the war, some ministers were persuaded that, with God's help, America might become "the principal Seat of the glorious Kingdom which Christ shall erect upon Earth in the latter Days".
  • Discuss the role that religious leaders played in the American Revolution.